“...to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.”
― Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
― Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
“Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as ‘the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.”
― Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
― Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.”
― The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
― The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
“I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.”
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“Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.”
― There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
― There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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